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A Dam Big Problem: Fracking Companies Build Dozens of Unauthorized Dams in B.C.'s Northeast
A subsidiary of Petronas, the Malaysian state-owned petro giant courted by the B.C. government, has built at least 16 unauthorized dams in northern B.C. to trap hundreds of millions of gallons of water used in its controversial fracking operations.
The 16 dams are among “dozens” that have been built by Petronas and other companies without proper authorizations, a senior dam safety official with the provincial government told the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, which began investigating the problem in late March after receiving a tip from someone with knowledge of how widespread the problem is. Read more.
VIDEO: Victoria Tourists React to B.C.'s Trophy Hunt
Trophy hunters have donated tens of thousands of dollars to B.C. Premier Christy Clark's government so they can keep killing grizzlies.
DeSmog Canada took to the streets of Victoria to ask citizens and tourists alike what they think about the controversial hunt. Watch Video.
VIDEO: How Much Do Site C's Temporary Jobs Cost British Columbians?
Christy Clark isn't the only one around here who can put on a hard hat and talk jobs.
In fact, Emma Gilchrist has some hard hat skills of her own and this time she's using them to take a close look at Clark's Site C dam job numbers. Watch Video.
5 Reasons to Give a Damn About the B.C. Election
Provincial elections fail to capture the imaginations of citizens the way national or even international elections do.
Case in point: in the last B.C. provincial election, just 55 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot — 13 per cent fewer than voted in the last federal election.
Yet Canadians have been captivated by the train wreck that’s been unfolding south of the border for the last six months — even though there ain’t much we can do about another country’s state of affairs.
If you give a damn about the state of the world, now’s as good a time as any to focus on what you can change. Read more.
It’s Official: Coal Just Became Uneconomic in Canada
Marijuana wasn’t the only green thing being celebrated on April 20.
In a somewhat unexpected move, the Calgary-based electricity company
TransAlta announced it will accelerate the phase-out of eight coal-fired power units — representing almost 3,000 megawatts of generating capacity — with six of those to be converted to gas-fired generation between 2021 and 2023.
The remaining two will be closed on Jan. 1, 2018.
“It makes complete economic sense that they did that,” says Binnu Jeyakumar, electricity program director at the Pembina Institute, pointing to expiring power purchase agreements (PPAs) and an increasing inability for coal to compete with natural gas and renewables. Read more.
Fact Checking Christy Clark’s LNG Claims
For years, the B.C. government has touted the benefits of developing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export industry — and while some of those benefits may be legit, one of them almost certainly isn’t.
That’s the claim that exporting natural gas will somehow result in emissions reductions in China. Let’s back up for a second.
Exporting LNG involves first fracking for gas in B.C.’s northeast, a process which causes earthquakes, uses epic amounts of fresh water and leaks the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere at a rate 2.5 times higher than what the B.C. government admits. Read more.
VIDEO: B.C. Grants Mount Polley Permit to Pump Mining Waste Directly into Quesnel Lake
The B.C. Liberals have quietly granted major donor Mount Polley Mining Corporation permission to drain mining waste directly into Quesnel Lake, B.C.’s deepest fjord lake and a source of drinking water for Likely residents as part of a “long-term water management plan."
Mount Polley and parent company Imperial Metals have donated more than $200,000 to the B.C. Liberals since 2005.r0
